SACRIFICES
"George, where are your school-books?"
"When notices appeared that books were wanted for the wounded, I gave mine to them."
"But, my dear," said his wife, after he had complained about the food the new cook had brought in. "You know during these terrible times it is absolutely necessary that we make great sacrifices."
"Oh, of course, but what I object to is that cook's making hers in the form of a burnt offering."
SAFETY
Throughout the trial the Englishman, whose crimes had been many and black, bore himself with an air of complete indifference and received the sentence of the supreme penalty with a bored yawn. After he had been led on to the scaffold and just as the hood and noose were about to be placed over his head, the attendant priest, still persisting in his attempts to awaken penitence, in spite of the doomed man's deafness to his prayers, asked him again for a final statement.